A Chinook helicopter similar to this one was shot down in Afghanistan Saturday, killing 30 US service members, almost all of them Navy SEALs returning from a rescue mission. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

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The Navy SEALs killed in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan were headed home from a rescue mission in which they flew to the aid of Army rangers who had come under a major Taliban assault, officials are revealing. The SEALs had "subdued attackers" who had pinned down the Rangers and were flying back on the Chinook when it was brought down by enemy fire, reports AP. Thirty US service members died, most of them SEALs. The elite fighters were part of the team that killed Osama bin Laden, though none of the dead men participated directly in that operation.

We need to get out of that hell-hole before more Men and Women are killed. It's been 10 long years and what have we gained? Lost thousand of lives and billion of dollars, for what?

Face-Of-RNC

Aug 8, 2011 10:21 AM CDT

If America was not running around the world, kicking third world ass, making war profiteers rich, stealing natural resources from the people who own them, then these wonderful Americans would be alive and with their families today. It may well be that the U. S. needed to drive the Taliban out of power after 9/11. But that job should have been completed years ago, and would have been except for the profits being made by Haliburton, Blackwater, KBR, and the like. With so much money available in the outsourcing of war, America and her soldiers will never be free of this criminal abuse of our military.

modernserf

Aug 8, 2011 8:15 AM CDT

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. ~Minot J. Savage